SHINE — Sunday’s scheduled closure of the Hood Canal Bridge will start an hour earlier than previously announced, according to the state Department of Transportation.
The closure will start at 10 p.m. Sunday and be in place through 4 a.m. Monday.
In addition, five-hour nightly closures — interrupted several times to ease congestion — are planned for the span overnight Monday through Wednesday.
Closures will be from 11 p.m. and 4 a.m. the next morning. They are scheduled for Monday night, Tuesday night and Wednesday night.
Crews will open the bridge to traffic several times during all the closures. The traffic openings will be unscheduled and performed as workloads allow.
Depending on work progress, additional night closures may be scheduled.
The closure could mean that delivery of the Peninsula Daily News is delayed. The newspaper is printed in Everett and brought back over the bridge in the early morning hours.
The closures allow crews to continue a project to replace mechanical components of the bridge.
